On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

Fusion has long been the propulsion end-goal for interplanetary travel, and a U.K.-based company thinks on its way to ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half the mission times to Mars. Pulsar Fusion ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half ... with components of the power system set for demonstration later this year. They aim to achieve nuclear ...

The Sunbird nuclear ... a Sunbird rocket docked on to a larger craft (Image: Pulsar) The company says its in-house team has been working on the project for a decade and it is "rapidly advancing toward ...

and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond — both robotically and with human crews.

developers of clean space propulsion systems and services through fusion, today announced the unveiling of Sunbird, a nuclear fusion rocket concept developed in complete secrecy over the past decade.